Employee Listening & Organizational Development

Employee listening is more than a one-off exercise or a generic annual engagement survey. Amplify your listening strategy to help your organization thrive.

OUR GOALS

Ignite Your Talent

For too many employees, work is a dreaded experience that triggers stress, boredom, frustration, or burnout. We can do better. Here at Teal Elephant, we want to flip the script on work. Our goals:

01

To get a true pulse on employee perceptions, behaviors, and opinions.

02

To spark engaging and energizing work environments.

03

To enhance employee wellbeing through connection, balance, and respectful engagement.

04

To foster supportive, collaborative, and psychologically safe teams - even if they're remote.

NICE TO MEET YOU

Meet Alyssa

Dr. Alyssa Birnbaum | Employee Listening & Organizational Development | Teal Elephant

Dr. Alyssa Birnbaum, founder of Teal Elephant, is an organizational psychologist, survey expert, TEDx speaker, and passionate employee wellbeing advocate.

“Alyssa is fantastic to work with! She is an expert in her field, curious, able, and willing to listen to the client's ideas. She is proactive, very well organized, and diligent… I can only recommend her for future work."

Past & Current Partners

Accenture
Johnson&Johnson
City Of Hope
McGill University
Unifai
Montijo Mouton Consulting
Talent Elevated
Yaamava
Griky
WorkBoard
Knit
C7 Connect

What We Do

Our Services

Employee Listening & Organizational Development | Teal Elephant

Employee Listening

Amplify your employees’ voices through strategic employee listening - through broad surveys, pulse surveys, interviews, focus groups, observations, and more.

Employee Listening & Organizational Development | Teal Elephant

Data Analysis & Reporting

Extract clear, succinct, and actionable findings with advanced data visualization and key takeaways.

Employee Listening & Organizational Development | Teal Elephant

Team Relationship Development

Build resilient connections within and across your teams, fostering a positive work culture for in-person, remote, and hybrid employees.

Employee Listening & Organizational Development | Teal Elephant

Assessment Creation & Automation

Leverage assessments for 360s or as a lead-generation tool to spark meaningful conversations.

Employee Listening & Organizational Development | Teal Elephant

Workshops, Trainings, Talks, & Keynotes

Support employee growth through engaging, research-based, hands-on learning with Alyssa, a PhD researcher and TEDx speaker.

Employee Listening & Organizational Development | Teal Elephant

BEYOND THE CHECKBOX

Most Companies Don’t Even Use Employee Listening Strategies.

When something feels awry, leaders just make executive decisions. Even when companies engage in some form of employee listening, it’s often treated more as a “checked box” than as an actual listening tool to drive meaningful change:

  • Expediency is valued over quality.

  • Solutions are mass-produced and generic, rather than tied to organizational goals.

  • AI is replacing (rather than supporting) analysis and recommendations.

  • The story behind the results is lost in a sea of dashboard calculations.

  • Employees don’t actually feel heard, validated, or supported after sharing their opinions.

The entire element of “listening”, in its purest sense, is lost.

Teal Elephant was created to leverage the science of Positive Psychology and truly empower employees to share their honest opinions to cultivate thriving organizations.

  • "Dr. Birnbaum is an exceptional professional and phenomenal representative for the field of Positive Organizational Psychology as a whole. While I was fortunate to have the opportunity to work with her on multiple projects through several years, I was constantly impressed by her ability to genuinely connect with each stakeholder, understand the demands and needs of a complex, global, working environment, and provide person-focused solutions to every situation. It was always clear that Dr. Birnbaum had a vested interest in each project and our entire organization to which she applied her incredible knowledge and insights fully towards. As such, full trust and a sense of true partnership was quickly achieved. I am confident in Dr. Birnbaum’s ability to take on many (if not any) challenge our organization has and will instantly contact her for support whenever the opportunity arises again."

    James Coughlin, Ph.D., Responsible Assessment Manager at Accenture

  • "Alyssa was a GREAT asset to our project! She did an excellent job extracting nuanced, data-driven insights from a complicated data set. She provided it in an easy-to-read doc that we quickly integrated into our final culture assessment report. Her analytical approach and attention to detail were exceptional! I highly recommend Alyssa’s services to anyone seeking a professional with a deep understanding of data analysis and cultural assessments"

    Mohammed Faris, Founder/CEO at The Productive Muslim Company

  • "Alyssa is an incredible strategic partner! She was able to jump in when I only shared the desired outcome and make something happen. She has extremely high work quality that is backed by research and thoughtfulness. I will 110% work with her again in the future and highly recommend her for other roles!"

    Heather Smith, Founder/CEO at Talent Elevated

Get Listening

Want to learn more? Chat about a potential project? Work together? Grab a virtual coffee? Please reach out!